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Originally Posted by tony20009

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Truly I think your comparison is far less realistic for it doesn't at all speak the fact that the range of skills needed to operate any of those crafts are vastly different. The truth is that I think that if I found myself flying in a small jet, I'd sooner have a pilot who's got lots of experience flying small jets than have a pilot who's got lots of experience flying big jets. Similarly, I'd feel safer in a small prop plane with a pilot who mostly flies prop planes under similar environmental and airport circumstances rather than jets under any circumstances.

I don't really think it's all that accurate to think or claim one type of pilot is better than the other because the skills needed vary quite widely, particularly at the extremes of aviation where the differences in skills will matter most.

I cited the "Mt. Everest" airport because it's the only one I know of for which there is no "do over" option for misjudged landing approaches. The pilot, once he commits to being on approach, has no place to turn around and try again and there is literally a mountain at the end of the 1600 foot runway, that is, the runway's pavement stops and and just feet later the mountain stands and at that point on the mountain, it's wider than the runway -- hell, it's wider than the whole town -- and goes basically straight up hundreds of feet

And that's what you see on takeoff, never mind that there's a 2000 foot drop at the end of the runway when you take off. The next photo shows what you see at the other end of the runway upon ]

Now, as I said, the skillsets differ, but find me a 747 pilot that has fly his 747 into conditions comparable (given the size of the planes) to those at Lukla. I know San Diego, St. Maarten, or even Gibraltar are no cake walk, but I don't think they are even remotely close.

All the best.

Yes landing and taking off from places such as Tenzing-Hillary Airport is entertaining (been there).
The most dangerous airports are those with large volumes of mixed traffic, local variations in atmospherics (cross winds, pressure), all this coupled with distractions.
The small light aircraft will likely have limited flight systems and predominately stick and eye balls, with a single pilot.
The larger aircraft will have 4 sets of eye balls, however they have much more to watch out for and invariably less visibility.

Both hard and require a skill set specific to both, unlike car drivers, you don't get that many bad pilots (yes you get ones that take risks), bad pilots don't last long.

Worlds worst airports ?

Ones where you have to wear / sit on body armour, lights out steep angle approach and rockets / motar shells impacting the peri track and main area.

Those are scary especially when coupled with high Altitude, high temperatures, high AUW.



Btw, Manual drivers can drive pretty much any car , auto drivers can't